CD player does not play cd-r.

[dapostusa]

I recently got a Sony DVP-S360 DVD, CD, video CD player which plays commercial cds fine, but does not read a single cd-r disc I have recorded.
Is this because it is incompatible or is there a fix for that?

 

[gorb]

Looks like that unit does not support CD-R

 

[Chrispy]

I recently got a Sony DVP-S360 DVD, CD, video CD player which plays commercial cds fine, but does not read a single cd-r disc I have recorded.
Is this because it is incompatible or is there a fix for that?

Then why did you get that particular player?

 

[dapostusa]

Looks like that unit does not support CD-R

Looks like it. Thanks for the quick reply. I have plenty of discs that work well with it so I will probably keep it anyway.

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[dapostusa]

Then why did you get that particular player?

Can't argue with free.

 

[Chrispy]

Can't argue with free.

Meh. Free doesn't mean much if you can't play the intended discs....

 

[wwenze]

It's a 2000 player, certainly explains why it cannot play CD-R.

At this point the space rent it takes up is probably worth more than the player.

 

[unpluggged]

It's a 2000 player, certainly explains why it cannot play CD-R.

No, it does not. I had a Yamaha CDX-393 MkII from 1998 which played CD-Rs just fine. My parents also had a Philips boombox that could read even CD-RW discs back in 2001, so its not about being too ancient.

 

[mhardy6647]

My utterly anecdotal experience with myriad dump find CDP and DVDP of various brands is that many if not most happily play CD-Rs, but very, very few (if any) of Sony players that I've, uhhh, curated do.
I have a feeling that this reflects Sony's deep aversion to copied digital content.
E.g., my current go-to CDP, which is in fact a DVDP (and, yes, a dump find from some years back), happily plays CD-Rs (not that the photo below is evidence of which ):



This little guy does, as well:



(This one was not a dump find, but was rather from the free table at a regional antique radio/audio swapmeet a few years back. Also not that it plays SACDs )

 

[Chrispy]

FWIW the manual for the player says it doesn't play cd-r. Look at page 5 of the manual https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/res/manuals/W000/W0004096M.pdf for "discs the player cannot play"